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10 Best Native Perennial Plants for Bee Gardens

10 Best Native Perennial Plants For Bee Gardens ! Pollination gardens are created with friendly native plants that bees love. Our native bee and non-bee pollinators such as birds, bats, butterflies, ants, flies, moths and beetles are attracted by the brightly colored, contrasting flowers that open seasonally filled with nectar and pollen for food sources. When we reference bees in our articles (unless otherwise noted), they are native bees (about 4000 species) found in North America - not the Honey Bee which was brought in from Europe by the Early American settlers. Native plants are...

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Grow Your Own Patio Garden!

Grow your own patio garden! Spring is here and it's time to get your garden ready for a successful season of bountiful harvests! Planting fruiting plants is a great way to enjoy delicious and fresh homegrown fruits while watching your plants grow. Fruiting plants are easy to plant, survive well in most climates, and provide fruits year after year. When planting fruiting plants here are a few tips for bountiful harvests: Begin with healthy soil - add plenty of compost or aged manure mix before planting. Grow in well-draining soil. If your soil is deficient in nutrients, then adding fertilizer...

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6 Best Vines for Growing on Fences

6 Best Vines for Growing on Fences! When you're deciding to cover your chain link or other wire fences, look no further than these 6 beauties. These vines are the best for growing on fences, trellises, and lattice panels for privacy. Each is a fast growing perennial vine and all, except the evergreen ivy, provide gorgeous summer flowers that will attract butterflies, hummingbirds and bees. 1. Lonicera Scentsation - a well behaved honeysuckle variety that you can plant on fences, arbors, trellises.. 2. Madame Galen Trumpet Creeper - bright coral-red trumpet shaped flowers. 3. Bignonia...

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Pathway Ideas for Worn Lawn Areas

Pathway Ideas for Worn Lawn Areas When a reader asked me what to do about some well worn patches across her lawn, my suggestion was 'Why fight it! Go with the flow!'. Some of the best ideas come out of necessity. With foot traffic wearing down a lawn or yard, it signals that there would be a path to connect the areas. Here is a short article with pictures of solutions for you using wood and stepping stones. Click here to read article: Pathway Solutions Beyond stepping stones, what ground covers are good for high traffic areas such as narrow paths, walkways and around stepping stones? For...

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How to Limit Yard and Garden Watering

How to Limit Yard and Garden Watering Tips to reduce summer watering and still keep plants alive! Mulch around plants with shredded bark mulch, aged compost mix or aged manure mix. If you can't mulch large areas, spread a good layer of straw (not hay as it generally houses weed seeds). Hoeing the ground around the plants brings moisture closer to the grounds surface for the plants. Plant perennials closer together to shade the ground. Use soaker hoses where needed instead of overhead watering. When watering with a garden hose, water only the ground around the base of the plant - not the...

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